Excerpts of the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
November 26, 1778

The Council met.

Philadelphia, Thursday November 26, 1778.

Present:

Hon'ble GEORGE BRYAN, Esq'r, Vice President.

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A letter from the board of War, inclosing copy of a Letter from his Excell'y Gen'l WASHINGTON, requesting a guard of 400 or 500 Men, to conduct the convention Prisoners thro' this State on their way Southward, was read ; & thereupon,

Ordered, That the first Class of Militia of the County of Bucks be immediately called into service, & that they March with all possible expedition to Easton, to guard the Convention Prisoners from thence to the southward.

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